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6% minimum wage rise after UK Low Pay Commission ruling, but above-AWE rises to end

Low-paid workers in the UK will later this year get a 6% pay rise, well above inflation and average weekly earnings growth, after the Blair Government accepted a recommendation by the pay-setting body on which the Fair Pay Commission was modelled. And in an echo of one of the Work Choices debates, the UK body has refused to accept that employers should be able to count non-cash benefits as part of the minimum wage.